Most Read This Week In Suspense

Suspense is a feeling of uncertainty and anxiety about the outcome of certain actions, most often referring to an audience's perceptions in a dramatic work. Suspense is not exclusive to fiction, though. Suspense may operate in any situation where there is a lead up to a big event or dramatic moment, with tension being a primary emotion felt as part of the situation. In the kind of suspense described by film director Alfred Hitchcock, an audience experiences suspense when they expect something bad to happen and have (or believe they have) a superior perspective on events in the drama's hierarch ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Suspense"

The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)
The Dinner Party: A Pick Your Poison Adventure
It's Not Her
Ward D
Want to Know a Secret?
Anatomy of an Alibi
Woman Down
Judge Stone
Rock Paper Scissors
The First Time I Saw Him (Hannah Hall, #2)
Death Row (Alibis Collection, #1)
Ask for Andrea (Ask for Andrea, #1)
Not Quite Dead Yet
Revenge Prey (Lucas Davenport #36)
You'll Miss Me When I'm Gone
Strange Houses (Strange Houses, #1)
Mad Mabel
Love, Mom
Do You Remember?
As Far as She Knew
She Didn't See It Coming
Strange Pictures
Law Maker (Aristocrats of London, #1)
The Keeper (Cal Hooper, #3)
Captivation Creek (The Haven Brothers, #5)
Heartwood
The Missing Half
Her Last Breath
The Ending Writes Itself
Strange Buildings (Strange Houses, #2)
Forget You Saw Her (Ask for Andrea, #0.5)
On a Quiet Street
It Should Have Been You
The Woman From Nowhere (Misted Pines, #5)
Finlay Donovan Crosses the Line (Finlay Donovan, #6)
Nash Falls (Walter Nash, #1)
Her First Mistake (Noelle Marshall, #1)
The Storm
Kill for Me, Kill for You
What Happened Next
I Came Back for You
No One Knew (Noelle Marshall #2)
The Proving Ground (The Lincoln Lawyer, #8; Harry Bosch Universe, #40)
The Business Trip
The Maidens
When I Kill You
The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives
Guess Again
The Polymorph
What Kind of Paradise
Tell Me What You Did
Bluebird Gold (Lost Legends, #1)
Nightshade (Catalina, #1)
Forget Me Not
Cross and Sampson (Alex Cross #35)
It's Not What You Think
Dead in the Water
All the Sinners Bleed
The Ex-Wives Club (Alibis Collection, #2)
You'll Never Know
You Killed Me First
Too Old for This
Julie Chan Is Dead
Notes on an Execution
The Last Party
Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief (Ernest Cunningham, #4)
Everyone Is Lying to You
In Her Defense
The Black Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #20)
Berwick (DCI Ryan Mysteries #24)
Bloodlust (Blood, #2)
The Woman in Suite 11  (Lo Blacklock, #2)
Bright Young Women
What We Did to Survive
The Drowning Woman
The Fix
With a Vengeance
All Her Fault
Exit Strategy (Jack Reacher, #30)
The Dead Girls Book Club
The Hallmarked Man (Cormoran Strike, #8)
Don't Answer the Phone
A Killing Cold
Family of Liars
The Arrangement (The Arrangement, #1)
Those Empty Eyes
The Seven Rings (The Lost Bride Trilogy, #3)
Jigsaw (Alex Delaware #41)
Served Him Right
Long Time Gone
What She Saw
The Truth About Ruby Cooper
Strangers in the Villa
Next of Kin
Tilt
Cold Zero
Death to Valentine's Day
The Invisible Woman
Beth Is Dead

Susan  Rowland
Mary’s hands clenched. She’d been through fire, what with a murder, and white supremacists. And what about Caroline, who had gone undercover to rescue the Scroll’s Key Keeper? Where were the College’s thanks for that?
Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder

Max Nowaz
I wanted to thank you for saving my life. I am still puzzled about your motives
though. Was it revenge against Zedan for rejecting you?”
“You insult me. It seems that you think of everybody in the same lowly terms you
think of yourself. If there is anybody I should hate for Zedan rejecting me, it should be
you. He was only doing what is expected of him in our society.”
“You mean you don't hate me?” This was a new revelation to Brown. It worried him.
He was used to hate, he could deal with it, bu ...more
Max Nowaz, The Arbitrator

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